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Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
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Inner and Outer London
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Lies can destroy, but not create.
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Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.
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A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.
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Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.
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In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.
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A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.
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Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
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Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.
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It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.
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To be accurate, write to remember, write to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.
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The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.
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Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.
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